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Leno, Jay

Jay Leno hosted ‘The Tonight Show’ for 17 years and has almost never taken a night off
He reportedly earns USD$17,000,000 a year according to Forbes
Leno has earned almost USD$1 billion in revenue for NBC since going on air
Jay Leno the comedian, was once legally banned from telling jokes
Jay Leno is a car enthusiast and has almost 80 exotic cars and bikes in his collection. His Harley Davidson was auctioned for charity, and sold for USD$1,550,100. See Leno’s collection.
Jay Leno is what you get when you cross an Italian man and a Scottish woman

Scientologists do believe in a Supreme Being, but do not worship one. Scientology believes that only through total spiritual enlightenment can one then truly discover and understand the Supreme Being.
The Church of Scientology is the first large organization to be banned from editing Wikipedia
Germany is seeking to ban Scientology
Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Lisa Cartwright (Simpsons) and Anne Archer are members of the Church of Scientology
Scientology involves the practice of ‘auditing,’ which is a one-on-one session with a Scientology counselor or ‘auditor.’ It involves an E-meter, that measures changes in electrical resistance through the body and supposedly helps locate areas of concern
The Church of Scientology and all of it’s companies do not pay tax because they fall under the categories of religious practices
Scientology holds a religious status only in the United States and Australia

In highschool, Barack was known as Barry and was part of the “Choom gang”
Obama won a Grammy Award in 2006 for Best Spoken Word Recording for the audio version of his book; Dreams From My Father
Obama’s family home in Chicago has 4 fireplaces
He worked in Baskin-Robbins as a teenager
Obama experimented with drugs and admitted that back in his early years he tried marijuana and cocaine but was not proud of it
Barack is a smoker but does not drink alcohol
One of Obama’s favourite books is ‘Where Wild Things Lie’
He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii but went to live in Indonesia with his mum when his parents divorced. There he was introduced to dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper
Obama used to love wearing sweaters. Now you only see him in a suit and tie
An advertisement for the assasination of Obama made its way into a newspaper before being quickly taken off

Turns out Facebook wasn’t always called Facebook. It originally launched as TheFacebook on thefacebook.com with Zuckerberg claiming he was “Founder, Master and Commander, Enemy of the State”. It didn’t become Facebook.com until 2005 when the fledgling site bought the domain for $200,000 from aboutface.com a web and intranet directory software company
Over 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States with all those people spending a whopping 5703 years (3 billion minutes) on the site each day.
The website is built on PHP-MySQL and is the second most-trafficked PHP site in the world
In April 2006, revenue was rumored to be over $1.5 million per week
The company already rejected a $975 million offer for the site
Facebook is valued at 8 billion according to Peter Thiel
It currently hosts over 1.7 Billion photos
Facebook is the 5th most valuable US Internet company, yet with only $150 million in annual revenue.
With this success, Zuckerberg (founder), Moskowitz and Hughes moved out to Palo Alto for the summer and rented a sublet. A few weeks later, Zuckerberg ran into the former cofounder of Napster, Sean Parker. Parker soon moved in to Zuckerberg’s apartment and they began working together. Parker provided the introduction to their first investor, Peter Thiel, cofounder of PayPal and managing partner of the Founders Fund. Thiel invested $500,000 into Facebook.

George W Bush was a cheerleader
He graduated from Yale University with a low C average
George W Bush became the first American president to enter the office after being convicted of a crime
Bush has been arrested for stealing a Christmas wreath
George W Bush had never left the United States until he became president
As governor of Texas, he was responsible for more executions than any other American governor

The phrase ‘Elementary my dear Watson’ was never mentioned in the Sherlock Holmes books
Sherlock means blonde, but the main characters are all dark haired
Holmes is modeled after the Scottish physician Joseph Bell
Holmes’ famous deerstalker cap was not created by Doyle, but by the illustrator, Sidney Paget
“when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” is the most famous true quote written by Conan Doyle
Watson has a bullet wound that was first described as being in the shoulder, but in another story the wound had moved to the leg
The only woman to have beaten Holmes was Irene Adler
Sherlock Holmes believed in Spiritualism, fairies and ghosts, just like his creator and author
There are more than 260 movies, 2 musicals and a ballet based on the book
In 1964, Sherlock Holmes books were the best sellers second only to the Bible
Sherlock abused cocaine and morphine in “The Sign Of Four”

Bill Gates’ house was designed using a Macintosh computer
Bill Gate had a SAT score of 1590. The top score for the test is 1600
Bill Gates earns $250 every second; that’s about $20 million a day and $7.8 billion a year
By the age of 17, Gates had sold his first computer program, a time-tabling system for his high school, for $4,200

Mozart’s full name was Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart
Mozart married the sister of the woman he had unsuccessfully courted several years earlier
He began composing and performing music at the age of six
Mozart died at the age of 35
He was an avid traveller. He spent a third of his life travelling
Mozart’s grave was desecrated and dug up to make room for more graves
Mozart’s skull was presented to the Salzburg Mozerteum by a grave robber. Nobody can confirm the skull belonged to the maestro

Theodore Roosevelt’s wife and mother died on the same day and in the same house
Roosevelt was the first American president to ride in a car and fly in an airplane
Roosevelt’s foreign policy was, ‘Speak softly and carry a big stick.’
Roosevelt married at the age of 22, and his wife was 19

John Wilke Booth’s brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son. It took place shortly before Abraham Lincoln’s assassination
Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated
He was also the tallest president
Abraham Lincoln invented and patented a buoyancy adjustment system for steamboats
Lincoln was known as a storyteller and jokester, but he also suffered from depression
Lincoln used to keep his notes, letters and even his bills in his black tophat